Battery-run auto-rickshaw drivers block Dhaka-Mymensingh highway over driver's alleged murder
Auto-rickshaw drivers and locals staged a protest by blocking the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in the Gargaria area of Sreepur, Gazipur, demanding justice for the alleged murder of an auto-rickshaw driver and punishment for those responsible.
The blockade, which began at 8:30am today (4 March), continued until 12pm, bringing all vehicular movement on the highway to a halt and causing severe inconvenience to passengers and drivers.
The deceased auto-rickshaw driver was identified as Liton Mia, 35, son of Md. Dulal Mia from Madkhola village in Ward No. 5 of Sreepur Municipality.
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Sources said a looking glass of a Taqwa Paribahan bus broke when it hit an auto-rickshaw from behind in the Gargaria Master Bari area on Monday afternoon, leading to an argument between the bus helpers and the auto-rickshaw driver.
At one point, the bus helpers took away the driver in their bus and left his body in Natun Bazar area allegedly after killing him, claimed the sources.
Police recovered the body and sent it to Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmad Medical College Hospital for an autopsy. Following the incident, police arrested Johnny Mia, 29, a bus driver of Takwa Paribahan.
Officer-in-Charge of Sreepur police station Joynal Abedin Mandol said the auto-rickshaw driver died after he was thrown off from the moving bus.
Liton's wife, Sharmin Begum, said, "Yesterday evening, my husband had an argument with the staff of a Takwa Paribahan bus in the Gargaria Masterbari area. Later, the bus staff forcibly took him away. Two hours later, locals found his body about 1.5 kilometers from the scene. When I arrived at the spot, I saw my husband's bloodied body with severed tendons."
